On Dec. 28, 1909, General Order No. 253 was published, establishing the official military occupational specialty of the chaplain assistant, stating that one enlisted man will serve to assist the chaplain in the performance of his official duties.
One hundred years later, Chief of Chaplains Chap. (Maj. Gen.) Douglas L. Carver and Chief of Chaplains and Regimental Sgt. Maj. Tommy Marrero joined over 100 chaplains and chaplain assistants serving on religious support teams throughout Baghdad on Nov. 25, for a celebratory dinner at Camp Victory’s Joint Visitors Bureau.
“We have come a very long way,” said Marrero, a Cayey, Puerto Rico, native.
